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		pavlov 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen 8pt Tahoma, lowercase, and using colons for decoration, like this: `:: news :: contact :: last updated 2000-07-31 ::`

508LoopDetected 4 months ago [–]

Yep! I'm guilty of continuing to use the double-colon separators to this very day. Just shipped an internal app for my company a few months ago that utilizes them in page titles.

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